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Page 61 - The statues represent male figures draped with a shawl-like cloth worn on the left shoulder and under the right arm so as to leave the right arm free which recalls the upaveta mode peculiar to India discovered during the later vedic age.

Page 24 - America ; especially when unaccented, as in the word ^T^Tl" atai, all. It never has the broad sound of a in hall, so common in Bengali. except what is produced by accent; to which the Sanskrit distinction of long and short, denoted by the two characters...

Page 534 - night," being the night of the fourteenth day of the moon's wane, in the month Magha, or Magha-phalguna, a rigorous .fast with cstraordinary ceremonies in honour of the Sivalinga, or Phallus.